Following short films/visual essays such as Erni and Beijing Holiday, Austrian
born artist Edgar Honetschäger makes his first foray into feature length cinema
with AUN: The Beginning And The End Of All Things. Employing e…Read More...
For Love’s Sake was screened as part of Derby QUAD’s Satori
Screen programme, a monthly evening showcasing East Asian cinema, on Friday
10th May, 2013. Shown not only as part of Derby QUAD’s…Read More...
Ancient gods and the modern needs of a growing and challenging future collide in
this story of nature versus industry. Studio Ghibli’s epic tale of Ashitaka
and his quest to uncover the magical Princess Mononoke, spirit…Read More...
Back in the 1990s, before the Studio Ghibli catalogue become widely known in the
Western market, it was a time when darker edgier anime were what the genre was
generally known for. Titles such as Ghost In The Shell and Aki…Read More...
Acclaimed Japanese director Kenji Mizoguchi takes the basis of Kanji Kunieda’s
book of the same name to make a film about the undisputed 18th century master of
woodblock painting, Utamaro, newly rereleased by Artificial Ey…Read More...
The Story Of The Last Chrysanthemums is released as part of the box set entitled,
simply, Mizoguchi. Kenji Mizoguchi’s The Story Of The Last Chrysanthemums is
often considered one of the director’s best pre-war films. W…Read More...
Looking back over the career of idiosyncratic Japanese filmmaker Takeshi Kitano,
one could easily make a case for split personality disorder. This is a man
perhaps best known for helming violent crime sagas such as his…Read More...
Joint winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival, director
Masaki Kobayashi’s enthralling jidaigeki tells a samurai story very much unlike
any other. Penned by Shinobu Hashimoto, who worked alongside t…Read More...
Tokyo! brings together short works from three creative, stylish directors in a
surreal triptych centred on the city of its title. Each piece of the film paints
its own imaginative and bizarre picture reflecting the city an…Read More...
Japan’s leading cinema publication, Kinema Junpo, anointed Bakumatsu Taiyo-Den
(aka The Sun Legend In The Last Days Of The Shogunate) as their country’s fifth
greatest film of all time, yet it has remained largely unknown…Read More...
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